POPOLI HIGHLIGHTS: LA CHAMBRE VIDE
Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 9:30 pm
LA CHAMBRE VIDE
THE EMPTY ROOM
by Jasna Krajinovic
(Belgium, France, 2016, 58’
)
We are in Brussels after the terrorist attack. The now empty room is that of Sabri who, at 19 years of age, quit her parents and brothers and went to Syria to ght the jihad. Four months after her departure, her family received a message announcing her death. From that day, Saliha, Sabri’s mother, has been working with an association of families whose children have joined Islamic terrorism. They ght to have laws and strategies drawn up to prevent that other youths are infected by the “vocation to martyrdom.”